Dave J's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio 2005 Downloads ("Deployment")

  Deployment to my target fails unless I first manually delete the previously deployed exe/dll on the target. How to avoid this What is the exact error message you are receiving from the deployment Short of the files being in use by a process, or out of memory on the device, we normally don't see any deployment errors like you describe. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Traffic on GSM Modem

  Dear All, I am developing an application using GSM modem I have around 50 messages limitonto my SIM card of Modem. Time when I am receiving the SMS I have to delete it using AT commands through C#.NET, Similarily I did when I had very less traffic , But Now I am getting numerous messages and the time when I am deleting the messages I am getting more messages still to come and it goes on increasing and my process of reading data get ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscriptions- How to enable?

  Hy, I'm doing a project, in Sql Reporting Services, and i need to create email subscription.In Sql Server Management Studio, when i right-click the folder subscritpion, which is inside the report i'm working, the option to create a subscription it's disable, so what should i do to turn it enable. Thanks. Yes it should work with Developer Edition. Are subscription disabled in general for all reports or just for certain reports You ...Show All

• Visual Studio refresh solution explorer

  I have created an add-in that, among other things, adds a folder and file to the project currently in the solution explorer. The problem is that this new folder and file do not show up in the solution explorer unless the user presses the refresh icon for the solution (project). How can I refresh the file list in the solution explorer programatically in the add-in I have tried everything I can think of and searched everywhere. This would sure he ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio team system as Test Case management

  Hi,     Can Visual Studio Team System be used for Test Case Management and test case scheduler, not just for unit test, but for all the test cases for the whole project for all the features/components, something like Microsoft's internal tool WTT Thanks, Anu Hi, This was a really old post. I believe your a looking for the VS 2005 SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=7e0fdd66-698a-4e6a-b373- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office exporting mdf to excel format

  Hi would someone be able to help with converting database .mdf file to excel.  Im informed that this is possible in .net using office extensions, however im not sure how.  Please could someone point me in the right direction. Thanks You can actaully export data from SQL Server directly into a new Excel spreadsheet. For further details on how to do this from code, please post your question on the MSDN ...Show All

• Visual C# Monitoring my IP

  Hi, have anyone ever need to monitor the Internet IP and when it's change insert in a MySQL Database.....I have an application that everytime that the computer turns on it store, but how can I monitor the IP change without consume so much of the system Thanks You can use the System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange class. It has a NetworkAddressChanged Event: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinform ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Complex security scenario

  I'm currently working in a project to move "WS-I Sample application for WSE 3" to WCF. (Microsoft Patterns & Practices) This project presents some challenges since the services exposed by the application need to be interoperable with other vendors and other Microsoft platforms such as WSE 2.0 and WSE 3.0. The more complex one is the security scenario because it is not one of the "turn-key" scenarios provided by WCF ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System constant ASP.NET session IDs in load tests

  I am testing an ASP.NET application that uses the session ID as a key for various operations. I noticed that during load tests the session ID is not always constant between requests for a given simulated user. Is there a setting that should be changed either in VS or on the server to ensure that the session ID is consistently maintained between request The test has a step load profile and the test mix&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to customize datagrid row based on data?

  I am binding a table and a datagrid.  The table has, amongst other things, a boolean field which will be false if the data in the row is in error. When this happens, the row should get a red background (or bold text or whatever), and& ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OnMediaEnded and weird MediaElement.Play behavior

  I do not want to use a StoryBoard, but wanted to loop a video. I put a MediaElement with LoadedBehavior set to Manual. MediaElement.Play is used to play the video. There's also an event handler for OnMediaEnded where MediaElement.Play is called again - to repeat the video. This has no effect - the video is not replayed. I put a call to Stop before calling Play again - no effect. *But*, if I change the Source property to a different video, Pla ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS tasks execution order problem

  Hi, I'm facing a problem with my SSIS package regarding the execution order of tasks. I am using my package for the purpose of loading data from XML to staging tables in the database, and have a loop to process all XML files. As a precondition to the loading action itself, I am running a stored procedure against the database (using the ExecuteSQL task) to check whether all staging tables are empty. The output parameter of that stored proce ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Custom directory for installation

  Hi, I was creating a software and published it. When I start the setup it is looking for the pre-requisits and installs the software to a directory without any question. How can I specify the defult installation directory for the installer and how can I ask during install for directory change Thanks for your help in advance. Regards Endre I don't think this is possible on VBE. For more information, you may take a ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional Data Inserting

  Hello, My project import data from a text file to a database. I'm able to import the whole file but i want to import only if data are younger than the one i have in database. How can i do  Where can i see a tutorial about it thanks a lot Ash has a great post on upserts here: http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/ashvinis/archive/2005/06/15/15829.aspx Give that a shot. Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Suite 2005 + SQL SERVER 2005 + TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER on one machine?

  I have one spare computer with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise installed.  I would like to have both the Application Tier and Database Tier on this machine.  Is this possible   Can VS.NET Team Suite 2005 Beta 2 exist on the same machine as SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Team Foundation Beta 2 I have not been able to successfully install all of these products on one machine.  I read somewhere that with Beta 1 the application tier and ...Show All